Going My Way (1944)
Movie Poster -
27" x 40" Movie Poster Print - Style A
Year: 1944
Condition:
New
Dimension: 27" x 40"
Movie Poster Print Style A
High quality 27" x 40" reproduction, printed on satin finish paper.
Reproductions are almost identical in quality to original 1 sheet posters, and
are ideal for framing and display in your home theater.
Synopsis:
It took some doing to persuade the staunchly Catholic Bing Crosby to play a
happy-go-lucky priest in Going My Way; luckily he acquiesced, winning an
Academy Award in the process. Crosby is cast as Father Chuck O'Malley, newly
arrived at rundown, heavily in debt St. Dominic's Church. Father Fitzgibbon
(Barry Fitzgerald), the cranky, set-in-his-ways curate of St. Dominic's, is none
too pleased with O'Malley's breezy, "modernistic" methods. Fitzgibbon is content
to adhere to the policies he has followed for nearly 45 years. Without overtly
challenging Fitzgibbon's authority (he likes the old buzzard, and the feeling is
mutual), O'Malley sets about to win the confidence of the local street toughs,
organizing the boys into an angelic church choir. He also forestalls the plans
of St. Dominic's mortgage holder Ted Haines (Gene Lockhart) to evict Fitzgibbons
by arranging a fundraising choir tour, to be headlined by O'Malley's childhood
friend, opera star Genevieve Linden (Rise Stevens). When he's not coming to the
rescue of St. Dominic's, O'Malley is smoothing the path of romance for Haines'
son (James Brown) and orphaned Carol James (Jean Heather), and arranging for a
reunion between Fitzgibbons and his nonagenarian Irish mother. There is
sentiment by the bucketful in Going My Way, but director Leo McCarey sagaciously
tempers the treacle with moments of genuine hilarity and several delightful (and
seemingly spontaneous) musical interludes. In addition to Crosby, Oscars went to
Barry Fitzgerald, Leo McCarey, screenwriters Frank Butler and Frank Cavett, and
Burke and Van Heusen's song hit "Swingin' On a Star." Bing Crosby repeated his
father O'Malley characterization in McCarey's 1945 sequel The Bells of St.
Mary's. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Cast: Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, Rise
Stevens, Frank McHugh, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall;
Directed by: Leo McCarey
